<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I'm currently using PETSc for the GPU acceleration of simple Krylov solver with GMRES, without preconditioning. This is within the framework of our in-house multigrid solver. I am getting a good GPU speedup on the finest grid level but progressively worse performance on each coarse level. This is not surprising, but I still hope to squeeze out some more performance, hopefully making it worthwhile to run some or all of the coarse grids on the GPU. </div><div> </div><div>I started investigating with nvprof / nsight and essentially came to the same conclusion that Xiangdong reported in a recent thread (July 16, "MemCpy (HtoD and DtoH) in Krylov solver"). My question is a follow-up to that thread: </div><div><br></div><div>The MPI communication is staged from the host, which results in some H<->D transfers for every mat-vec operation. A CUDA-aware MPI implementation might avoid these transfers for communication between ranks that are assigned to the same accelerator. Has this been implemented or tested?<br></div><div><br></div><div>In our solver we typically run with multiple MPI ranks all assigned to a single device, and running with a single rank is not really feasible as we still have a sizable amount of work for the CPU to chew through. Thus, I think quite a lot of the H<->D transfers could be avoided if I can skip the MPI staging on the host. I am quite new to PETSc so I wanted to ask around before blindly digging into this. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div id="m_-3093947404852640465DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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